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39- . Falco palumbarius, Lin- Jjft. i. p. 13CT. N° 30". 



GOSHAWK L'Autour, Brif. orn. i. p. 317. N° 3. 



Buf. oif. i. p. 230. t. 12. — PL enl. 418, 4&f. 



Grofle gefperberte falck; grofle gepfeilte falck, Frifch. t. 8l, 8s. 



Accipiter palumbarius, Rati Jyn. p. 18. N° 1. 



Gofhawk, Will, orn. p. 85. t. 3, $. — Br. Zool. 1. N° 52/ 



■ ■ Amer. Zool. N° 



5r. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Jescription. 



ENGTH one foot ten inches and a quarter: in fize it is- 

 larger, but more flender in fliape, than the common Buzzard. 

 The bill is blue, with a black tip : cere yellowilh green : iris 

 yellow : over the eye is a line of white: on the fide of the neck 

 is a bed of broken white: head and parts above deep brown : 

 breaft and belly marked with numerous tranfverfe black and 

 white bars: tail afh-colouredj.long, with four or five dufky bars : 

 legs yellow : claws black. 



Willughby obferves,. that: " the thighs are- covered over with 

 reddifh feathers,, having a black line in the middle down the 

 fhaft :" alfo " in each feather of the breaft there is a black 

 circular line near the top, running parallel to the edges of the 

 feather, and in fome alfo the fhaft and middle part of the feather 

 is black." 



This fpecies was formerly held in great efteem for the fport 

 of falconry, being ufed not only to Partridge and Pheafant, 

 but alfo greater fowl, as Geefe and Cranes, and fometimes for 

 Rabbets. Indeed, moft of the Hawks may be trained up for 

 this purpofe, though fome are infinitely more docile than- 

 others, 



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